Smart Soil Planner

A Quality of Life mod to quickly plan farms on Gleba and save valuable overgrowth soil.

Smart Soil Planner helps you organize agricultural tower layouts in Factorio: Space Age. Easily identify suitable planting areas, find excess soil, and mark unnecessary soil for deconstruction.

No more worrying about wasting expensive overgrowth soil!

Features

🌱 Plan your crop fields

Use the planner tool in construction-mode on agricultural towers to analyze their planting areas and identify suitable locations for Yumako and Jellynut cultivation.

• Automatically identifies suitable and unsuitable planting areas.
• Preferres artificial over overgrowth soil, reducing costs
• Does not place any excess soil tiles in places where nothing would grow either way

♻️ Clean up unused soil

Already placed too much artificial soil? Smart Soil Planner can help recover it!
Using the tool in cleanup-mode allows you to analyze already placed soil.

• Detect soil belonging to invalid planting plots.
• Preserve soil used by valid planting plots, including overlapping tower coverage.
• Mark unnecessary soil for deconstruction by construction robots.

⚙️ Customizable behavior

Adjust the planner to suit your needs using the mod settings. You dont like how your agricultural area looks?
Choose replacement tiles for invalid plots. Fill them with landfill, concrete, or whatever suits your factory.

How to use

1. Select agricultural towers using left click with the Smart Soil Planner to inspect their planting areas.
2. Select soil tiles using right click to analyze existing artificial soil and identify unnecessary tiles.
3. Let your construction robots handle the cleanup once the unwanted soil has been marked for deconstruction.